[Manifestations of visceral and ocular symptoms of toxocariasis in a 6-year-old boy]. / Pojava visceralne i okularne klinicke slike toksokarijaze kod sestogodisnjeg decaka.

In the past 10 years we have examined 137 cases of toxocariasis, predominantly in children. Three cases were with unilateral ocular involvement. The article reviews a 6-year-old boy with left side strabismus and granulomatous chorioretinitis. Laboratory examinations revealed blood eosinophylia 24% and IgG against Toxocara canis larvae in titer 1:320 by indirect immunofluorescent assay. In epidemiologic anamnesis we concluded that about 4, 5-year-long geophagia was the source of infection.

[Motor organization in children with encopresis]. / Motorna organizovanost dece s enkoprezom.

The paper reviews the degree of fecal retention in regard to organization of certain functions of central nervous system (motoric, vegetative and psychic), as well as to certain qualities of motoric organization by means of correlation analysis. Gathered results point to connection between poor tonic organization, especially of the axial muscle tonus and neuromuscular binds and the degree of fecal retention; correlations are positive, linear, so that poor motoric organization can be considered basic for the disorder of the pelvic floor muscles function and consequent encopresis.

[Methodology in studying laterality in developmental neuropsychiatry]. / Metodologija proucavanja lateralizovanosti u razvojnoj neuropsihijatriji.

The extent of literature and research dedicated to the laterality of cerebral functions and it's relation towards peripheral laterality gives the impression that this problem is precisely determined to a greater extent. The fact that can be accepted by the examination of literature is that the relation behavior (in the sense of acting)--brain (in the sense of a material determination of behavior itself) cannot be accepted as precisely determined or according to definition, not by nature nor by the mechanism of establishing this relation. From the perspective of the clinical viewpoint of the meaning of left-handedness the most acceptable is the theory of Satz Orsini and Sopper from 1986 in which they consider that non-righthanded people present a heterogenous group with a few individual sub-types: pathological lefthanded persons; ambivalent persons, in other words, ambidexters and the group of lefthanded persons by nature. On the basis of present neuropsychological research and in accordance with the psycho-neuro-vegetative approach to the semiotics of the developmental age of Popov et al., a complete battery is given which enables the neuropsychological analysis according to Orzbut's principals.

[Specific psychomotor organization in a child with phocomelia]. / Specificna organizacija psihomotorike deteta sa fokomelijom.

The authors follow the specific development of a child with phocomelia. Psychomotoric organization was analyzed in the period prior to starting school and before the child became literate. The existence of specific forms and outlines of catching movements was established. The lower extremities developed a compensatory--fine motorics mechanism of toe abduction. A drawing of a human figure expressed the specific experiencing of the body scheme as the "losing" of the upper extremities. Left-handedness was discovered. Typical difficulties exist in the forming of the number conception. Preparations are being done for the mastering of the use of the intelectual prosthesis-computer.

[Social tension--a factor in conversion. Case report]. / Socijalna tenzija--faktor konverzije. Prikaz slucaja.

Presented is a case of a girl of Albanian nationality, an adolescent, one of the ill in the group of "mass poisoned" in Kosovo, at the beginning of 1990. The up to then, completely healthy girl had repeated crises of the same type four times, with functional disorders. She was hospitalized at the request of her father in Novi Sad, at the Institute for Neurology and Psychiatry of the Developmental Age. The somatic and laboratory findings were within the average limits. The psychological tests indicated a person prone to conversive reacting in situations which she does not succeed to process emotionally in an adequate manner. Such a personality structure had the role of inducing a conversive atmosphere in the immediate school environment. The presented case has suggested that a low level of general culture and expected school knowledge primarily creates favorable grounds for massive hysterical occurrences.

[Laterality in institutionalized patients with moderate, severe and very severe mental retardation and stereotyped behavior]. / Lateralizovanost kod institucionalizovanih umereno, teze i tezko mentalno retardiranih osoba sa stereotipnim ponasanjem.

A total of 54 moderately (n = 13), more severely (n = 27) and severely (n = 14) mentally retarded persons living in institutions were dealt with in this paper. Qualities of their stereotyped actions were analysed and compared in respect to the used lateralization according to Cordic-Bojanin's modified scale and to Berg's scale for used lateralization. Results obtained pointed to the differences among stereotypes themselves in respect to the influence of social environment and the degree of retardation. Therefore, twisting of the body was regarded as the "mildest" form of retardation and passivity, while the motions of hands only were associated with the most severe ones. Used lateralization in the form of dextrality occurred in 62.96%, in the ambidextrality in 14.8% while sinistrality accounted for 22.2%. Right-handed persons most frequently showed stereotyped behaviour which was manifested by the forward-backward motion of the body, while left-handed persons showed stereotypes connected with hands. It was believed that the tonus which represented the termination of the voluntary action and the basis of the development of lateralization would be regarded as the connection between lateralization and stereotypes.